Principal Electrical Engineer

Job Number: 3572

External Description:

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

About this role
The Principal Electrical Engineer leads and manages hardware aspects of products throughout their entire lifecycle from architecture, planning, design through verification and validation. Provides electrical-design technical leadership for teams in cross-functional new product development and sustaining engineering projects. Hardware design development is for products based on different sensing technologies (e.g. Optical, Electrochemical) and communication technologies (wired and wireless).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead hardware strategic planning, concept generation, architecture definition and translation to system/subsystem/component definitions, with a focus on reliability, safety, and sustainability.
• Provide technical leadership to other electrical engineering and project team members.
• Develop and write engineering requirements and rationales that align with customer requirements and regulatory standards.
• Work closely with Embedded Firmware Engineers to develop and execute strategies for Hardware/Firmware integration and diagnostic coverage.
• Implement new or updated electronic designs that meet or exceed all customer, marketing, and regulatory requirements.
• Assess the impact of making changes to electrical components, subcircuits, PCBs, and PCBAs.
• Author and lead through to implementation engineering change requests, manufacturing and engineering change orders.
• Complete computer assisted design (CAD) modeling & simulation, risk analyses (e.g. DFMEA), schematic capture, and board layouts of designs.
• Develop or support development of test cases and traceability from requirements.
• Build and test designs from bench-level to formal verification and validation level using in-house test setups or at 3rd party test facilities.
• Support product quality investigations and perform root cause analyses.
• Follow development processes, lead technical reviews, and properly document, test, and control work deliverables.
• Provide work breakdown plans and task estimates in support of project estimates and management.
• Use Agile methodology for hardware development with clear communication to project stakeholders with metrics to track and report progress.
• Identify project risks and provide practical proposals to close gaps and mitigate risks.
• Participate in roadmap and resource planning.
• Support multiple product development programs at a given time.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years of professional work experience.
• 6+ years developing PCBA’s designs.
• 2+ years of Microcontroller (MCU) experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Analog circuit design experience strongly preferred. 
• Embedded programming experience.
• Experience with Design for Manufacturability and Design for Test.
• Led the hardware development of at least one product from inception through market launch.
• Platformed product development experience.
• Regulated product experience (medical, automotive, Industrial Life Safety, SIL2).
• Agile methodology experience.
• Experience across all phases of the program development lifecycle, from requirements capture through design, implementation, and test.
• Experienced with FMEAs and developing control techniques to mitigate risks.
• Excellent team leadership, communication and organizational skills.
• Self-motivated and demonstrated ability to lead process improvement activities.

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Location_formattedLocationLong: Minnesota, US